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Quote by Marge Piercy

“I think we validate our lives through our actions.”

Quote by Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy is an American poet born on March 31, 1936. Her poetry extensively covers social and political issues, known for her profound social consciousness and feminist perspective. more

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“Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.”

Years Wells Natural Religious Growing Tree Seasons Historical Holiday Significance Inward Looking Back Relevance Calendars Growing Things Historical Significance

Author:Marge Piercy

“Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.”

Writing Moving Mother Memories Source Mythology Greek Muse Greek Mythology Greek Myth

Author:Marge Piercy

“Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.”

Mind Sometimes Character Difficult My Own Emotion Novel My Own Life Doorways

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“When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.”

Kind Persons Real British Monarchy Real Person Warhol British Monarchy

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“There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.”

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Author:Marge Piercy

“I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell what actually was part of your life and what is part of the story of the fictional character.”

Ifs Thinking Different Hard Character Stories Use Fiction Strange Fictional Character

Author:Marge Piercy

“I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.”

Want Writing Use Past Form Memories Cases Meditation Effects Recalls

Author:Marge Piercy

“When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.”

Committed Treated Dirt Stubborn

Author:Marge Piercy

“I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.”

People Thinking Wells Different Fiction Situation Known Violence Danger Stress Notion Range Behave Great Men

Author:Marge Piercy

“Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.”

Persons Life Is Economic Particular Circumstances

Author:Marge Piercy